Visualization of search results: A comparative evaluation of text, 2D, and 3D interfaces

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 3-10

  Sebrechts, Marc M ^a   Vasilakis, Joanna ^a   Miller, Michael S ^a   Cugini, John V ^b   Laskowski, Sharon J ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

2D; 3D; Evaluation; Information visualization; Interface design; Text

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; VISUALIZATION;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TEXT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84998122252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/312624.312634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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